Bitcoin Cash 'Fork' Causes Uncertainty For Cryptocurrency Community

The debate over how to scale bitcoin came to a head on Tuesday as some cryptocurrency miners started using software called Bitcoin Cash and splitting a new blockchain off the old one.

The fork in the bitcoin road has been two years in the making as the cryptocurrency has changed quite a bit since it was first launched in 2009.

Further, if they change this decision in future they "would distribute to customers bitcoin cash (BCC) associated with bitcoin (BTC) balances at the time of the fork on August 1st, 2017". Bitcoin is collectively valued at $47 billion, but remains a niche product.

All current Bitcoin holders will automatically own Bitcoin Cash. Ethereum, Bitcoin's main rival by market capitalization, has already had its own hard fork moment, while Litecoin now has faster transaction times than bitcoin and is looking to launch a "lightning network" making it more scalable. "It just sounds bad; we're not used to currencies that split into two". In the past day, the bitcoin cash price climbed 45% against bitcoin to return to the $400 mark.

Bitcoin was created by a pseudonymous coder (or coders) known as Satoshi Nakamoto, who released the software that powers the currency in 2009. Since the blockchain is a public ledger, anyone and everyone can see that this transaction happened. Blocks on bitcoin will take between 12-20 minutes.

Acrimony among bitcoiners stems from disagreement about limits on the blockchain's capacity baked into Nakamoto's design, and what to do about them.

Through mining, transactions are organized and the entire network is protected.

One of the primary reasons behind this roller coaster performance is speculators looking to cash-in on the free BCC or those who are trying to get rid of the Bitcoin to be on the safe side and opting for altcoin instead like Ethereum, which saw a near 10% jump in its prices during the same time. Bitcoin Cash tokens are finally here and many crypto investors are expected to have a piece of the cake but not all will. A group of miners, developers, investors, and bitcoin users will upgrade the Bitcoin protocol as specified by the User Activated Hard Fork (UAHF). This will slow down the bitcoin blockchain somewhat. But others will not. The San Francisco -based bitcoin exchange Kraken has announced it would begin crediting Bitcoin Cash shortly and trading has begun on the platform. Any action to be taken to respond to the creation of Bitcoin Cash will be subject to obtaining any necessary amendments to, or consents under, the trust agreement governing the Bitcoin investment Trust. When Bitcoin is exchanged, it's done through something called a blockchain - a distributed database that can be securely read and written to by multiple users.

But many say there's no way of knowing exactly how the move will play out.

Yoni Ben Shimon, cofounder and CEO at Matchpool told Business Insider that he thinks the fork could be "a healthy process", adding that it would be "similar to how evolution works in nature". Will Bitcoin Cash turnout to be valuable or near-worthless? It depends on whom you ask. The original plan was to increase block sizes to 2MB each. "Either is a win for bitcoin users". Nobody ever said that upending the financial system would be easy.

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